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The problem is you never asked them then and just did your thing quickly to make sure they didn't beat you to it. And apparently you don't realise you are basically asking them to part with something on the same level as Mecca and the St. Peter. And I'll readily agree they may not have acted understanding nor welcoming at the time at all so that this may have been one of the only ways to get exactly what you wanted without compromise, but it was always going to lead to war.

It was a stupid thing and way to do it then. Had their been an agreed upon plan in advance, things might have gone different. Question of course is whether the Palestinians would have ever accepted a Jewish state or influence on their state, or a state with both religions treated as equal.


It just was a plan that was probably always going to go bad fast. :/ Tbh, if you had managed a secular state, perhaps a federal state, with fair guarantees for all religions regarding holy sites... Too late for that now though.